Originally Posted by
Fly Baby
Why pick BKK for this trial - long flight time perhaps?
Presumably the fact that this is primariyl a leisure destination and the fact that it is not uncommon for individuals to have quite a bit of time spend while waiting for a flight (possibly in transit) must have weighed into the equation
Originally Posted by
carnarvon
I can recall BHX lounge (third party lounge) when they decided to open it to paying guests.
One day there was a bunch of Thomsonfly holiday pax in the place. 2 of them raided the bar and kept throwing bags of snacks across the lounge to their mates.
Appalling. The nice lady in charge of the lounge was clearly affected and discouraged.
In DPS (or was it CGK?), it was around 10 Australian tourists overindulging in beer which was available on tap.
BKK will become the same.
Access for a fee is very common in lounges which are not affiliated to a specific airline. These are rarely the best lounges around but the behaviour you describe does not strike me, on the basis of the mixed use lounges that I have used over the years, as very frequent nor markedly more common than in airline-affiliated lounges.
I would be circumspect about opening lounges to a wider clientele, primarily from the perspective of potential over-crowding but objecting to paid access on the basis of the supposed kind of clientele it would bring in the lounges would look to me as rather unwarranted snobbism. Uncouth behaviour is hardly the preserve of infrequent travelers in economy and I think we should take a long, hard look in the mirror before considering ourselves superior in this respect.